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Word: disasterously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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As New England storms go, that is by no means an excessive amount; in fact, a blizzard that roared across the Northeast later in the week, paralyzing much of the Atlantic seaboard, dumped up to 16 in. on Hartford's rooftops. What is more, the flat, "space frame" roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Night the Roof Fell In | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

No eye-catching costumes. A swim through a million pounds of warm mud in a collapsing New York City subway. Those are some of the drawbacks to playing the Soviet astrophysicist heroine of Meteor, a $16 million disaster film. For Natalie Wood, who slipped into a comfy pants outfit and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

The point is that the athletic department should not lose track of the interests of the student. It is one thing to visit a prospective student and tell him what the school has to offer--a low pressure athletic program being one of the attractions. It would be a disaster...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: I Was a Teenage Television Addict | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

Yet Goebbels refuses to concede that all is lost. His spirit soars at any sign of trouble on the Allied side; he cheers at reports of labor unrest and food shortages in the U.S. and Britain. He goes on at length about how the Allied forces will be weakened by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Inside the G | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

We're showing profits like they're going out of style," says Morton Erstling, senior vice president of Eastern. Other fleet operators freely trumpet similar claims, but since most lines are foreign (Italian, Norwegian, Greek, even Soviet), privately owned and keep tightly guarded books, hard profit figures are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom in Sunshine Cruises | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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